In the family meals of the so marked day of Sant Esteve, parakeet fans debated last year the future of a Spanish evicted, who was bottom and who entered the Christmas with a new tenant on the bench. Although all the information pointed to Abelardo Fernandez He would be the substitute for the already fired Pablo Machín (Rufete has already applied, a position he would occupy at the end of the course), until the 27th the news was not made official. His arrival closed the change of course of the Titanic parakeet, which finally rushed to the descent.
His hiring ended the most intense weeks of the mandate of Chen yansheng, only comparable to the dismissal of Quique Sánchez Flores and Jordi Lardín in 2018 in a sudden way, after the declarations of the first and the terrible streak of the perico team. But they do not reach the magnitude of what happened in 2020, the worst campaign in Blue and White history. Chen prepared the ground in early December, when he detected that the bicephalea created between Roger guasch and Oscar Perarnau it did not connect and it slowed down the processes.
Chen, along with Rufete and Durán.
The president decided to unify the entire command in the figure of Josep Maria Duran, now converted to CEO. The manager worked behind the scenes in December to face a winter market with investments (up to 42.5 million were spent between Oier, Raúl de Tomás, Embarba and Cabrera) and to knit a plan B at the same time in case of descent. The dismissal of Roger Guasch and the descent of Perarnau to technical secretary accompanied that decision.
Together with Durán, Rufete, in charge of making the squad together with David Gallego, assumed command of the Ciudad Deportiva. The disaster could not be avoided, in fact Espanyol's journey was hopeful the first month with the Asturian coach, but after the pandemic everything went wrong and the course ended with a shameful decline, assumed by all the players. A year later, Espanyol walks straight to Primera, with the last captains of the Titanic.